This Week in Squirrels September 9, 2014

Squirrel Drug-Running

Does this squirrel dress better than most college students?

Sneezy the campus squirrel has gained notoriety (and much media coverage) for her high tolerance for being dressed in cute outfits. A "squirrel whispering" student at Penn State has even turned this squirrel's cuteness into an enterprise, including a Facebook page with over 25,000 "likes." Is this squirrel-sploitation or just ridiculously cute? Is this putting Berkeley squirrels to shame?

Forget octomom - fifty offspring?

And a project involving citizen scientists suggests that the red squirrel population is holding steady, good news for these cute little guys who face being driven out of their territory by their relatives, the highly adaptive gray squirrel.

Power Outages

Sparta, NJ and Washington County, OR experienced squirrel-related loss of power this week. It's the third power outage in the area for Oregon, where "They give up their life for this." But why?